sudo apt install smartmontools, or whichever tool your distro uses to pull down applications. smartctl is part of the above package.
Once done: sudo smartctl -i /dev/xxx in my case sda, sdb, sdc, sdd sda is the on board HDD, the others are usb drives, the last two returned good data, the sdb (seagate) told me to go pack sand.. On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:47 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:30:33 -0700 > Chuck Hast <wch...@gmail.com> dijo: > > >On a whim I ran smartctl on my 3 USB disks, guess what??? The Seagate > >knows nothing, the two WD drives give me all of the info... Go > > You 'ran smartctl' on your drives. How did you do that? From the > command line? 'Man smartctrl' gave me 'no manual entry for smartctl.' > If smartctl is, indeed, a command line tool, some syntax and lexicon > would be useful. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
